On October 1st 2011 changes to the Agency Workers Regulations came into force. The AWR are very comprehensive but the three main changes which have come into force are: After a 12-week qualifying period, agency workers have the same rights to pay and working conditions as permanent staff in a similar role. This includes overtime [...]
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Training Gap for Dyslexia Sufferers
A survey by Unionlearn has highlighted that staff who suffer from dyslexia are missing out …
Click HereSalary Sacrifice Vat Changes
From 1st January 2012, new rules have come into force on VAT treatment of certain benefits provided under a salary sacrifice scheme. After a ruling in the European Court of Justice, an employer, operating a salary sacrifice scheme, must pay “output” tax on the pay given up by employees. Output tax, which is the VAT [...]
Simple HR’s Redundancy Calculator
The current economic climate is affecting all businesses today; unemployment and redundancy are becoming a way of life. As an employer you have various legal obligations to your employee if their position becomes redundant. It is imperative that you follow procedure to ensure that the process is as fair, consistent and sympathetic. At Simple HR [...]
Salary Sacrifice Vat Changes
New rules have come into place from 1st January 2012 on VAT treatment of certain benefits provided under a salary sacrifice scheme. For further details please email info@simplehr.co.uk
Simply Put – January 2012
At Simple HR it’s all about You! In 2011 we listened to our clients requests, so in 2012… Following last year’s training success our clients can now download ALL training material at simplehr.co.uk/Training-Materials/ We have build an easy to use redundancy entitlement calculator. Use it for free at simplehr.co.uk/redundancy-page/ As well as Simply Put newsletters [...]
Bank Holiday 2012
Plans are now in place for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee next year. This means that there will be an extra bank holiday in 2012. The 2012 late May bank holiday will be moved to Monday 4 June 2012 and an additional Jubilee bank holiday will be on Tuesday 5 June 2012. These holidays will also [...]
Carry on Carrying over the Holidays
All employees are entitled to holidays but what happens when they are unable to take their annual leave in the relevant time? As an employer you should ensure that staff are encouraged to take their holidays for their own health and life balance. If however, sickness or absence leaves them unable to take their holidays, [...]
Festive Holidays
Our offices will be closed from 12 noon on Friday 23rd December until Friday 30th December inclusive. We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year and we look forward to working with you all again in 2012.
To Tweet or not to Tweet
Like it or not we are now living in the age of social media and companies are beginning to relax their thinking on social networking and media sites. Rather than rigid and inflexible policies, there is a growing feeling that a lighter approach can benefit the company by complementing the organisations search engine optimisation strategy [...]
No business like snow business
It is that time of year again and we are being inundated with requests for advice on how best to deal with bad weather and its impact on business. By law, if your business is open then employees are obliged to attend work unless they are on holiday, have a contractual agreement, off sick or [...]